To me it reads HERMAN JASDROW on front. The German handwriting is HERMANN. So I think someone in Northamerika has written the names on front of the photos.

The only entry for Hermann/Herman I could find is this (the 't' in German could sound like 'd', esp. considering dialects):In the German World War I Casualty Lists of 29. April 1918: Missing in action JASTROW, HERMANN born in Rogasen [Rogozno] in Posen [Prussian Province].

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/7779530

Like in photo number 1601 I used the metasearch function of the Society for Computergenealogy (Verein für Computergenealogie), which is a supersite for genealogy in Germany. Some of it is in English, they have a gazetteer (GOV) and there is a vivid forum (Forum), too: http://meta.genealogy.net/?lang=en

I tell all this because at this database, when looking at the other entries for our search names Jasdrow and Schauland (with their variations) most of them are from the regions of POSEN (Prussian Province of Posen or Poznan), POMMERN (Prussian Province Pomerania), Westpreußen (Prussian Province Westpreussen, Westprussia).

Historically, families connected to these regions moved forth and back and also emigrated to Northamerika.

I list here the other spelling variations I tried, just in case a family researcher is googling one day:

JASTROJASDRAUJASDROJAZDROWJAZDROJAZDRAUI had no luck at all looking for JUSDROW or JUSDRAU, nor JAHSDROW or JAHSDRAU.

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